Our Experts

“Sepsis is a common, life-threatening, and increasingly frequent medical problem that consumes huge amounts of resources. Mortality rates remain high, and the long-term effects, including total disability, severe. We desperately need new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to sepsis.”
Pulmonary medicine and critical care physician, Professor and Dean, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem NC, USA

“Sepsis is extremely common and accounts for many thousands of deaths worldwide each year; many more patients experience long and difficult periods of recovery. Simple preventative measures, as well as early recognition and treatment, can help to reduce the impact of this destructive disease.”
Professor of Critical Care Nursing, Griffith University & Princess, Alexandra Hospital, AND, Higher Degrees Research (HDR) Convenor, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

“Sepsis is always a serious, life-threatening condition, with mortality varying from 30-50% in the developed world. I suspect the mortality rates are similar, if not even higher, in developing countries. Ask most people “What is sepsis?” and your answer will be a blank stare. The World Sepsis Day will indeed help to increase awareness, which will over the years reduce human toll of this tragic disease.”
Physician & Intensivist, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, India

“Severe sepsis is the most serious complication of acute infection, and as such is arguably the world's greatest public health threat. There have been tremendous advances in basic and clinical science and in bedside care. However, the magnitude of the work ahead remains considerable. A greater awareness among clinicians and across society is crucial for future success. To that end, the World Sepsis Day is a welcome and wonderful initiative.”
Chair, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, Health Policy and Management, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

“Given the 30 years that I have spent conducting human investigation in the field of sepsis, I enthusiastically support World Sepsis Day to commemorate how far we have come and to focus on what we have left to do.”
Professor of Medicine and Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Medicine, Nashville, USA

“I believe we can achieve a lot by creating awareness about Sepsis; knowing is the first step to changing behaviour.”
Professor of Anesthesiology; Vice Chairman: Academic Affairs; University of Washington; Seattle, USA

"I support World Sepsis Day because we have to do everything for improving the treatment of fungal sepsis."
Director, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology Hans-Knoell-Institute, Jena, Germany

"Sepsis always starts with an infection. We should do our very best to prevent infection. Sepsis survivors suffer from serious mental and physical long-term sequelae. More research is urgently needed. - We do research for your health -."
Professor and Chair, Paul-Martini-Clinical Sepsis Research Unit, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

“Reducing the mortality from sepsis remains one of the most significant unmet medical needs of your current age. When I tell medical students that sepsis still kills at least 30% of people who are afflicted by it, even if they are in the most modern intensive care unit and receiving all the best antibiotics, you can tell immediately that they appreciate the significance of learning more, and doing more about this disease. I have spent many years working in the field and I am really so pleased that colleagues around the world are joining together in this way to maintain the momentum of both basic and clinical research in order to try and make things better for patients in the future”.
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Dean, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK

“For the first time, we seek to bring nurses, clinicians and allied health professionals from all disciplines together as a global community to reach out to politicians, policymakers, volunteer organizations, and funding bodies. This gives us real opportunity to reduce the human and economic impact of sepsis on a worldwide scale. I am proud to support World Sepsis Day.“
CEO: Global Sepsis Alliance; Chair: United Kingdom Sepsis Group; Principal Trustee: U.K Sepsis Trust; Founding Director: Survive Sepsis; Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK

"As a bedside clinician and as someone who has spent the majority of his academic career devoted to education and research in sepsis, I recognize how devastating a disease sepsis can be. Unlike cancer and heart disease, sepsis remains underemphasized in the minds of the public and governmental agencies. The World Sepsis Day will start a journey toward rectifying this problem."
Professor of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Director Critical Care, Cooper University Hospital, Camden NJ, USA

"Although sepsis represents a major threat to our patients, evidence suggests a significant gap between knowledge and practice among our clinicians. The Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine is proud to be an active partner of the World Sepsis Day, the objective of which is to narrow this gap by encouraging dedicated efforts from multiple relevant disciplines all over the world.”
Director, Medical ICU, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Council Member , World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), Vice President, Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (APACCM), President, Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine (CSCCM), Beijing, China.

"Sepsis is a global burden, therefore global approaches are needed!”
Director Intensive Care, University Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and General Intensive Care, Salzburg County Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

"For me personally and quite certainly for all of us in the medical profession who have dedicated substantial time and efforts over the years to more precisely understand the mechanistisms of sepsis, respectively develop more sensitive monitoring for a rapid detection of the syndrome, it represents a most noble mission to join in and support the targets of the World Sepsis Declaration and the World Sepsis Day. Yes, our synchronized efforts will enable us to start controlling and finally defeating sepsis.”
Professor of Surgery, Consultant, German Antisepsis Foundation, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

“Sepsis remains a lethal disease that does not respect the age, sex, health, or economic status of its victims. I have seen fit, healthy young men die of sepsis in a matter of hours. The burden of sepsis is truly horrifying, but the future is not without hope. By raising awareness and focusing our efforts, WSD can lead to a dramatic reduction in the burden of sepsis. That is why I wholeheartedly support World Sepsis Day.”
Professorial Fellow The George Institute for Global Health, Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care, Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney and Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, Australia

“My focus is prevention of sepsis. The collaborative effort amongst physicians, nurses and other hospital staff has meanwhile shown tangible improvements in many institutions, among them many hospitals participating in our national Nosocomial infection surveillance system (KISS). Well organized quality programs can reduce catheter associated infection rates substantially and achieve significant cost savings.”
Director The German National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité - University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

“Sepsis is lethal, if unrecognized. More we know about, early the cure may be. Early cure means dramatic improvement of servival. Therefore, welcome to the World Sepsis Day”
Director of the School of Anesthesia and Intensive Care University of Milan, Italy

“Our knowledge of sepsis pathologic processes in humans is inadequate. Despite intense research, only few new therapies have been developed and the mainstay of treatment remains a non specific advanced life support.”
Professor of anesthesiology and intensive care Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy

“On the one hand, basic research activities on pathomechanisms of infection, inflammation, and host response made considerable progress within the last 20-25 years, and are still rapidly increasing. On the other hand, innovative and effective improvements in treating thousands of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock are rather limited, and many creative approaches failed in clinical practice. This is at least partially based on the fact that financial ressources to perform large clinical trials are poor. Even more reason to support the World Sepsis Day as an opportunity to contact multiple partners within our health system, as well as to demonstrate to urgent need for more public awareness.”
Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

“I can never forget the first patient I met as a young resident, the one who drove me to join the fight against sepsis. He was a young man of 46 years dying in my hands of a urinary tract infection, even though he was administered antibiotics active against the isolated bacteria. I always remember the sense of bitterness of that drama. Every day, many patients die of sepsis for no good reason, and we still cannot help them. The solution: join forces with us and help us fight this battle.”
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, ATTIKON University Hospital

“Sepsis is a major killer in both the developing and developed world yet application of relatively simple measures could substantially reduce this mortality.”
Professor, Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT Hong Kong

“I am supporting the WSD as a public statement and a binding force to draw the attenttion to the huge problem of sepsis, of which we do not know enough to improve the persistently high mortality. This is to share thoughts, comfort relatives of victims and creating research initiatives and opportunities. Also to acknowledge the tremendous work done by intensive care specialist alls over the world.  We urgently need new tools to establish sepsis, new antibiotics, new anti-sepsis drugs, etc: help!”
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Director of Research Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

“Severe sepsis and in particular septic shock are still killing too much people worldwide! A major problem is that neither the common incidence nor the necessity of rapid and aggressive treatment are adequately recognised by the general public but also by a majority of health care workers. I personally hope that the initiative of a world sepsis day will arouse our community and strengthen our efforts to improve overall sepsis diagnosis and treatment.”
Director, Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Palliative- and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital of the Barmherzigen Schwestern, Ried im Innkreis, Austria, Head of the Section Intensive Care Medicine of the Austrian Society of Anaesthesia, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine (ÖGARI)

“Sepsis respects no gender, no age, and no ethnicity. It can afflict anybody. It is the number one killer in intensive care units around the world, and only a well-coordinated global effort can overcome such a formidable foe.”
Director, Medical Critical Care, Orlando Regional Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, University of Central Florida; President World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM); Orlando FL, USA

“Too many lives have been lost to Sepsis without even being able to identify the main focus early enough. We need to change our practice. As an Intensivist, I want to implement the best possible care for Septic patients and hope to initiate a hospital- wide team.
I support WSD because, I believe in the goal of Sepsis Survival and
I want to Save More Lives!”
Chairman, NANIN & Nurse Manager, ICU, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano-Nigeria

”Severe infections leading to sepsis account for about 70% of infant and childhood deaths worldwide. I support the World Sepsis Day as a step to elevate public awareness, influence policy and generate action to fight this widespread scourge. Our future depends on the welfare of our children.”
Vice President, Medical Affairs, BC Children's Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre; BCCH and UBC Professor in Acute and Critical Care - Global Child Health; Department of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine; University of British Columbia; Senior Scientist, Child and Family Research Institute,Vancouver BC, Canada

”As intensive/critical care physicians, we often try to save patients from severe sepsis in our ICUs. I agree with the aims of the GSA: to increase public awareness of the threat of sepsis to health, while also mobilizing the stakeholders to the battlefields of sepsis. Let's join the GSA activities and World Sepsis Day to realign our achievable goals toward further enhancing sepsis outcome.”
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asian Medical Center, Univ. of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

”In the fight against invisible and silent bacteria, parasites and viruses, our intelligence and immune system are the most powerful weapons.”
Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, University Hospital Cologne, and Chairman of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Cologne, Germany

”Sepsis is important. It accounts for the majority of deaths that occur in ICUs. But few people know about it. We need to call attention to this condition and to give our full support to research dedicated to improving outcomes.”
Professor, Department of Internal medicine – Section of Critical Care, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

”I support the World Sepsis Day as a crucial step to increase global awareness about sepsis.
Early recognition and effective treatment are necessary to decrease high mortality from this common medical syndrome.”
Professor and Chairman Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University in Wroclaw, Head of Polish Working Group for Sepsis, Editor-in-Chief journal "Sepsis", Wroclaw, Poland

”Sepsis is a common disease. The global impact of sepsis is enormous, both in terms of lives lost and high cost. Sepsis affects the young and the old, and one of the ongoing challenges is early recognition of sepsis. It is most important at this time to draw attention to this common disease in order to increase awareness and attract funding for research so that we can continue in our fight to reduce the number of people who die each year from sepsis”
Professor of Medicine and Division Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Medical School, Providence RI

”Increase awareness is the keystone in the fight against sepsis. Without a better understanding of this worldwide devastating health problem among healthcare providers, lay people and politicians, all other important steps as early recognition, adequate treatment, new research horizons and prevention strategies are unachievable.
I believe the World Sepsis Day is a key step to increase awareness.”
Professor and Head, Intensive Care Therapy, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Critical Care, President of the Latin America Sepsis Institute, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

”The mission of the Sepsis Collaborative at MD Anderson Cancer Center is to decrease mortality from sepsis through early recognition and prompt initiation of therapy in our highly susceptible and often immunosuppressed patient population. This mission strongly aligns with GSA's Vision 2020 goals, and our Collaborative proudly supports this vision and World Sepsis Day 2012.”
Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Care, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX, USA

”To solve a problem one must first recognize it. Sepsis has been a largely invisible disease. Those of us who care for critically ill septic patients are constantly frustrated that death from sepsis is described in other terms – “complications of cancer or surgery”, "malaria", or even “after a brief illness”. Sepsis is the pathway to death for four of the top ten causes of death on our planet; until we recognize this, we cannot change it. Thus I am thrilled to see the emergence of World Sepsis Day as a global effort to raise the profile of sepsis as a treatable or preventable illness with health care workers, decision-makers, and the general public.”
Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto; Director of Research, Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Chair, International Forum for Acute Care Trialists (InFACT); Past-Chair, International Sepsis Forum (ISF), Toronto, Canada

”Sepsis is associated with unacceptable mortality and mortality. Hence it is urgent that biomedical sciences take up the challenge to come up with solutions to this formidable problem.”
Professor em. of Internal Medicine, former Chairman of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen; Vice-President of the Department of Natural Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; The Netherlands

"To think of sepsis for one day is a good start but not enough, because every day, every minute, every second patients are dying from this modern plague.”
Professor and Director, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Divison of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Kantonsspital Aarau, Switzerland

"I support the World Sepsis Day because sepsis is the main cause of death on the intensive care unit, and many of these deaths could be prevented if sepsis were recognized earlier before multiple organ failure sets in and makes intensive care obligatory.”
Professor of Critical Care Medicine; Chair, Medical Intensive Care Unit; Head, Variability of Innate Immunity Research Laboratory; Cochin-St.Vincent de Paul University Hospital; Paris, France

"Sepsis represents perhaps the greatest challenge to effective delivery of healthcare and certainly provides the greatest hope. For a disease to be so common and so deadly and, yet, so unknown, creates a crisis that exceeds the need for new therapeutics and diagnostics. To reduce deaths from sepsis, we must better organize the delivery of care to those in need, regardless of location. In the developing world, this includes better access to clear water and nutrition – in addition to healthcare facilities and providers. In the developed world, this requires re-organization of our delivery of care so that sepsis is treated as a medical emergency with improved engineering of systems to deliver this care. To drive these changes, increased awareness is required, for only through increased public demand will we in healthcare be provided the resources and expectations we need to improve. While this seems an insurmountable task, the great promise is that, by adhering to the care articulated by the Global Sepsis Alliance declaration and raising awareness through World Sepsis Day, we have the opportunity to change the natural history of this disease in our lifetimes – to save millions of lives – without requiring new discoveries – simply by doing what we know works. This hope, this promise is what requires us to continue to push for better sepsis care.”
Professor Assistant Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit The Ohio State University Medical Center Sepsis Alliance, Board of Directors

“Sepsis is a major healthcare challenge: in Australia alone, over 6000 patients die of sepsis in intensive care units each year. Trying to cure sepsis is a major part of my work as an intensive care specialist. This problem is even greater in the developing world, with thousands of deaths occurring every day. But many of these deaths could be prevented if more people were aware of sepsis and had better access to appropriate medical care. That’s why I’m lending my support to this important initiative.”
Professor Intensive Care, former Past President, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia

”Sepsis-induced organ failure and the adverse consequences of septic shock remain the major therapeutic challenges in the care of critically ill patients worldwide. Expert supportive care and early intervention with antibiotics and surgery, if needed, remain the mainstay of sepsis treatment. But we must do better. Mortality rates in septic shock remain high, and survivors often suffer long-term health consequences such as cognitive decline, increased risk of infection, and reduced functional capacity. Research into new prevention and treatment strategies will be necessary if we expect to improve outcomes among sepsis patients in the future.”
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease Division, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Chair of the International Sepsis Forum (ISF) Providence RI, USA

"We have to combine our efforts to tackle sepsis to the benefit of patients, relatives and societies world-wide.”
Professor in Intensive Care Medicine, Dept. of Intensive Care Rigshospitalet , Copenhagen University Hospital; Scandinavian Critical Care Trials Group, Copenhagen, Denmark

"Sepsis is global problem, in developed parts of the world. This infectious disease is however, still widely neglected by physicians, researchers and the public. This has to be substantially changed!”
Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Münster, Germany

"Initially inappropriate antibiotic treatment increases the case fatality rate in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. Currently, there is an increasing and frightening gap between the worldwide increase in multi-resistant pathogens and novel antibiotics. We urgently need both, strategies to slow down the spread of resistance (i.e. antibiotic stewardship and infection control programs) and large research programs to accelerate the development of novel antimicrobial compounds. Otherwise the death toll of sepsis will rise again – despite the advances of modern intensive care medicine.”
Head, Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Germany

”I support the initiative of declaring 13 September 2012 the World Sepsis Day. Sepsis takes many lives both in the western world and resource-poor countries, and it affects children and adults alike. I sincerely believe that World Sepsis Day will increase awareness of this devastating syndrome.”
Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

”I support the World Sepsis Day of Sept. 13, 2012 because sepsis represents a heavy burden to the community. It is associated with a high mortality rate, but also with significant sequels in survivors. We have just started to realize that sepsis was associated with both physical and cognitive functions in patients surviving this condition, impacting on their quality of life. Prevention of this deadly disease and development of more efficacious therapies must be a healthcare priority.”
Staff member of the ICU in Geneva, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, HUG, Geneva, Switzerland

“Critical care is where all other specialties send their patients for intensive and high-tech care but sepsis is the main killer of our patients and uses most of our resources. I think we need to unify and work together to expose this killer disease to raise awareness and enable the public to us in this fight.”
President of the International Pan-Arab Critical Care Medicine Society (IPACCMS); President of the Emirate Intensive Care Society (EICS); Head of the Intensive Care Department, Dubai Hospital, UAE

“I support the World Sepsis Day because I want fewer children and adults to suffer from sepsis and more patients to survive.”
Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Chairman, Global Sepsis Alliance, Jena, Germany

"Sepsis is a global health emergency necessitating awareness and action, and pediatric sepsis is an unquestionably important target for anyone who seeks to reduce pediatric morbidity and mortality worldwide. As a pediatric intensivist, an advocate, and a mother, I am invested in improving child health worldwide. I wholeheartedly support the World Sepsis Declaration as an invaluable opportunity to engage the medical community, general public, and political powers in the steps required to decrease the unacceptably high mortality and morbidity from sepsis worldwide.”
Critical Care Fellow at Cincinatti Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinatti OH, USA

"Sepsis mortality is still unacceptably high, reaching 70% in patients with multiple organ failure. Despite previous publications and recommendations such as those issued by the "Surviving Sepsis Campaign", knowledge about how to diagnose and adequately treat sepsis is still deplorably insufficient both on the national level of health care as well as in large international public health organisations. That is why the “World Federation of Critical Care Societies, WFSICCM” endorses a campaign that intends to alert physicians, institutions and different organisations about the increasing burden of sepsis on a national and international scale. Hopefully, this message spreads throughout the medical community and among people especially in the more vulnerable regions.”
Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota University Hospital; Treasurer, WFSICCM; Past President Colombian Society Of Critical Care Medicine, Bogota, Colombia.

"As an intensive care physician, I see life and I see death that is why I am passionate about treating Sepsis reliably. Sepsis is an intolerable and indiscriminate killer of people of any age, background and social status. Prompt recognition, assessment and timely treatment are the key to beating this ruthless disease. Improvement science, by making our care processes more reliable, will help ensure that the right patient, receives the right treatment at the right time.
The World Sepsis declaration complements our national strategy in Scotland, to reduce the burden of Sepsis and we are very proud to be associated with such a worthy initiative.”
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine,Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Professor of Care Improvement, University of the West of Scotland and National Clinical Advisor on Sepsis to Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

"As a clinician and researcher in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, I have always been struck by the extreme complexity of the systemic organe failure that characterizes severe sepsis and septic shock. Yet, I have always been convinced that the solution resides somewhere, in possibly unexpected molecular and cellular processes, that only ambitious and innovative basic research will reveal. Unfortunately, this topic has clearly not yet acquired sufficient visibility, thus not attracted the critical mass of committed researchers from different and complementary disciplines, that is warranted to pretend to success. I enthusiastically endorse the World Sepsis Day initiative.”
Professor at Collège de France; Chair of Microbiologie et Maladies Infectieuses, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

"Sepsis is a killer and considered a medical emergency. It is the leading cause of death. It kills every 18 seconds in the world despite advances in modern medicine but can be treated if diagnosed early. People throughout the world must become aware of this lethal condition. With our full support to the World Sepsis Declaration it is our responsibility as humans, physicians, advocates, parents and community members to spread awareness by education, among the public, hospitals, schools, governments and countries to inform that we should fight against sepsis and that early diagnosis, administration of fluids and antibiotics is the golden key and most effective way to save our loved ones.”
Chief Medical Officer and Consultant Critical Care, Taiba Hospital, Kuwait; Secretary-General and Past President, International Pan-Arab Critical Care Society, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

“Brazil has one of the higher mortality rates around the world. The Global Sepsis Alliance will organize a World Sepsis Day on September 13, 2012 in order to increase the awareness about this challenging threat. I personally support the WSD because it will call attention of major Brazilian stakeholders from public health system, as well as from the main hospitals and universities. Hence, this global and national action could help us to decrease sepsis prevalence and mortality by implementing the best strategies proposed by the main leaders in this field.”
Professor and Head, Department of Intensive Care, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein; Member, Latin American Sepsis Institute, São Paulo, Brazil

“Sepsis has been a scourge of the human race for thousands of years. An ageing population and increasingly complex medical and surgical practices magnifies the risk of developing sepsis, one of the few major medical conditions whose incidence and resulting mortality continues to rise. The need for early identification and better treatment is ever more relevant.”
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, UK; Council Member of the International Sepsis Forum, UK; National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator, UK

“Because saving a single life is like saving the whole humanity and because the simplest infections can kill easily if not discovered early and treated promptly. I put all my efforts in the fight against sepsis and strongly support the World Sepsis Day.”
Specialist Critical Care Medicine, Alzahra Private Hospital, Sharjah, UAE

”Sepsis is a devastating illness that kills people every day around the world. It causes great pain and suffering for patients and their families. Physicians MUST unite and provide worldwide action to end this scourge. We MUST become more proactive in implementing the World Sepsis Declaration. We MUST recognize sepsis earlier, increase survival rates of sepsis patients through better prevention and treatment, implement international sepsis guidelines, and educate professionals, policymakers, and the public about sepsis to increase awareness of this catastrophic malady. "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
Director, General Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

”I support WSD because even today, no hospital in Turkey has a program for sepsis awareness program, early sepsis diagnosis, or treatment protocols. I want to help to lower sepsis mortality rates by establishing sepsis public awareness programs and sepsis treatment protocols in Turkish hospitals.”
Professor of Internal Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, Erciyes University, Kayseri; Chair, Turkish Society of Medical Surgical Intensive Care, Ankara, Turkey

“Sepsis is one of the major challenges in the care of acutely ill patients. It requires increased awareness of the general public and everybody involved in the whole health care process. Delays in any step from home to intensive care may worsen the chances of survival. The Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Bern (Inselspital) therefore supports the World Sepsis Day efforts to increase the awareness of sepsis and to improve the chances of septic patients to survive.”
Professor and Head, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern (Inselspital), Bern, Switzerland

”It was the loss of a single courageous infant to sepsis that caused me to dedicate my professional life to understanding and eradicating sepsis and other immune disorders. The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is privileged to have supported the creation of the GSA, and to have hosted its first congress at the Merinoff Symposium 2010: Sepsis. As has been the case elsewhere in the world, the call to action issued there to recognize sepsis as an emergency, inspired our own North Shore LIJ health system to undertake unprecedented efforts. Many lives have now been saved. The battle against sepsis has started, and we are all committed to finishing it. The Global Sepsis Alliance and World Sepsis Day have our steadfast support and ongoing appreciation.”
President, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; Professor and President of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, North Shore Hospitals, Manhassett NY, USA

”Awareness and perception of a problem is the first step to improvement. The accurate and timely diagnosis and proper treatment of sepsis is still a challenge for health care organisations. Improvement of the underlying process results in better outcomes from sepsis. It is therefore of uppermost importance to enforce recognition of related quality issues. The World Sepsis Day is an excellent initiative in promoting the need for a joint effort to improve prevention and treatment of sepsis in order to save millions of lives around the globe.”
Director, Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Rudolfstiftung, Vienna, Austria. President of the Federation of Austrian Societies of Intensive Care Medicine, Vienna, Austria

”As an intensivist, I see the impact of sepsis on patients' lives on a daily basis. Sepsis is one of the leading killers in our ICUs and, worryingly, the number of cases of sepsis is increasing around the globe. Rapid diagnosis and early appropriate antibiotic treatment and resuscitation can already make a big difference to outcomes, but we urgently need new effective treatments for sepsis. I support the World Sepsis Day as an important initiative to spread the word. Let’s make sure everyone knows what sepsis is, so that patients can be admitted, diagnosed, and treated as quickly as possible, new therapies can be developed, and lives can be saved!”
Professor and Head, Department of Intensive Care,Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

“I support the World Sepsis Day because apart from commitment, awareness is essential in adequate treatment of sepsis.”
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Council member for Belgium in the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Board member Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Ghent, Belgium

“Mortality of sepsis still remains unacceptably high. I support the idea of the "World Sepsis Day" to attract more attention to this tremendous health care problem.”
Professor and Head, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Hannover Medical School; President,German Sepsis Society; President Elect,German Society of Respiratory Diseases, Hannover, Germany

"I support the World Sepsis Day because I want to help increase the chances of survival for sepsis patients.”
Professor and Director, Department of Medicine III, (Cardiology, Angiology, Medical Intensive Care Medicine, Sports Medicine, Geriatrics), University Clinics of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany